Rackspace Admits Outage Related to Ransomware On Tuesday, five days into an outage of Rackspace’s hosted Exchange service, they admitted it was due to ransomware. They say it is going to impact revenue as they work to mitigate the problem. It is still a dumpster fire, but they are dribbling out information at last. I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As tens of thousands of people in Moore County North Carolina are in the dark and cold as a result of attacks on two power stations in the county. The power stations were intentionally targeted by domestic terrorists who targeted gunfire on the substations’ transformers. While the county is not releasing many details and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Great Crypto-Cop Brain Drain As if things weren’t hard enough for the cops, the ones that have been tracking down the bad crypto apples have discovered the grass is greener on the corporate side – a lot greener. And they are fleeing the government side, making things even harder for the remaining govies. Read […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dropbox says it was phished – simple as that. As a result, the attacker had access to 130 of its code repositories and downloaded a wide range of information. Dropbox has been very transparent about this, but it is both embarrassing and damaging to the company. The hackers socially engineered an employee to give up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New White Paper on the Global Cyberwar and Societal Response We have just released a new white paper and are looking for feedback on this non-technical paper titled The Global Cyberwar and Societal Response. The target audience for this white paper is business and IT pros who want to be knowledgeable about managing company risk […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Get ready for this. We have five states that need to issue regulations and every one will have multiple iterations. Here is the current state of California’s regs, issued by the CPPA. In addition to the modified regulations, they also issued 16 pages of explanation. These takeaways are from Daniel Goldberg of the law firm […]
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